A cat called Shandy and her young kitten have been found abandoned in – you guessed it – a skip.

But this isn’t just a typical sob story, because luckily the little baby has been re-housed, while Shandy waits with bated breath for the foster home of her dreams.

According to the New Rochelle Patch, the moggies were placed in a cardboard box that had been put in a rubbish container.

If you’re looking for budget skip hire without a cat inside, you’ve come to the right place.

Call 08445 60 77 10 to find out more.

You might not believe it, but horse-drawn carts are helping many French towns with rubbish collection duties.

Officials in locations such as Perpignan have compared the typical skip price with the cost of hiring equines.

What did they find out?

Naturally, it was determined that waste collection should be carried out by horses.

Jean Baptiste, the mayor of Peyrestortes, told the Guardian that the town’s medieval street layout made it difficult to bring out vehicles and skips.

Roads would often be blocked off, much to the chagrin of irate neigh-bours.

Mr Baptiste extolled the virtues of the approach, explaining: “The exhaust smells have gone, the noise has gone, and instead we have the clip-clop of horses’ hooves.”

We ran out of mini skips for hire last week – everyone who was carrying out work on their properties had booked them all out for the bank holiday weekend. Mini skips, despite their name, can hold a considerable amount of rubbish – between 2 tonnes of muck and around one tonne of mixed waste. They’re really handy for domestic jobs where small scale jobs are concerned.

A mini skip is small. It’s about 4 feet long and 3 foot wide and 2.5 feet high.

However, they’re extremely useful. They are key to domestic jobs and for finishing large scale jobs. They hold up to 2 tonnes of soil and are great for household clean outs. They’re called mini skips but they do hold a surprising amount of waste.

Check this video out to see a mini skip in glorious technicolour:

Mini skip hire is mostly popular with domestic properties – they are small, so great for quick spring cleans. They hold up to 30 full bin bags, and are 4 ft long, 3 ft wide and 2 ft deep. We deliver them all over the UK, but for not in London. This is due to lack of demand – nobody in London ever ordered them, so we stopped doing them in that area. The smallest skip size you can get in The Big Smoke is the 4 yard midi skip.

Call the TopSkips team for more information on 0844 560 7710.

Mini Skips are great for those domestic jobs where you have just that little bit too much to take to the tip yourself. They are great for garden work when you’re shifting soil (they hold around two tonnes of soil) or if you’re clearing the spare room.

Just chuck the soil into your mini skip and then we collect and recycle! Easy peasy.

Check out this mini skip video of ours, you can see what a mini skip looks like in the flesh!

Call the mini skip experts at Topskips on 08445 60 77 10.